Lily Schneider
For Fantasy Gymnastics Purposes Only any names on here are made up and any similarities to real people is completely coincidental
06.23.06
The Bathtub Test
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well," said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup."
"No, " said the Director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"
12.20.05
AAAAAAAAAAAAH!! This is too funny! I had to post this for you guys!!!
Don't you love those things?
12.01.05
Gwen, Misty, myself and Ubu!
GO TEAM!
11.29.05
So like, seriously, the medal I won on floor, silver thank you very much... one of my favorite colors... totally awesome. I love it sooooo much. But honestly? I was way more psyched about getting the koala stuffed animal! Seriously it's soooo cute! I absolutely adore it! Dawn Losmer did the commentary for the floor final, I actually didn't find that out until later, but how cool is that? I mean Stanford girls can do anything, am I right? So I've decided, after a short discussion with my parents and aunt Carol and Corina that I want to make a run at the 2006 Worlds in Aarhus Denmark.
11.26.05
As I'm sure you all know by now Ubu got second place in the all around! Isn't that awesome? We were so happy! Gwen came in 9th which is totally great too! I was sitting with Corina and she was definitely happy about that silver medal! I took like so many pictures of the thing, but I'm not done taking pictures yet, I've still got the finals today to watch before I compete tomorrow. Wow, what a great time!
11.24.05
So I bet you guys have been wanting an update for like ever! So here's what happened. I had a great floor routine! OMG I was just on fire, doing my thang, everything was great. Of course being third up in subbie 1 REALLY sucks and I think my score reflected that, only a 9.55, so I was like, daaaayum! I'm just like grrr a little you know b/c this totally affects my placement in finals, not to mention if I make finals. Then vault. I had a really solid first vault, a step, but just a little one. Once again though, being first up didn't help me any. My second vault... I just can't even explain the depths of stupidity I went into. I practically fell flat on my face when I landed and was grateful I managed to stand up without touching the mat with my knees or hands. Needless to say there's no way I had a shot at vault finals. Still, I was okay with that, floor was what I was really hoping for. So, as you all probably guessed, I made floor finals! Yay! Both Ubu and Gwen made AA finals, Gwen made bars finals, Misty beam finals and both Ubu and myself made floor finals! Totally awesome!
Oh yah, and Happy Turkey Day to all those USA'ers!
11.22.05
Oh! Ooh! Oh! Oh I love my daddy! Oh, yes I do! I love him so very much! AAAAAH! Oh! Can't stop thinking that! Wow! Okay, so, guess what my surprise was, go on, guess! My family! Not just my lil family, my ENTIRE family! I haven't been so completely surrounded by family since the Olympics! Wow! Oh I just... yah! I'm so happy! I can't believe it!
11.21.05
Yay! My daddy's here! I sound like such a little kid when I say that, but he's always going to be daddy to me! Okay so he was dressed in casual clothes which was good, but totally fooled me because I thought he had a meeting. He did, but it turns out he delayed it so he could eat breakfast with me! Isn't he just the sweetest guy ever? Oh, okay so then he left for his meeting, boo, and I went to the training session, which was a yay. I mean seriously I'm not here to have fun, well no I take that back... I am here to have fun, just not at the expense of training! So Aunt Carol and I went and did that, and of course she was happy to see him too because she's his little sister. Aww, it was so sweet to see them together. It reminds me of my big brother, yah I miss him a lot. So this surprise I'm getting, I still don't know what it is and it's making me a little impatient here because I love surprises! I can't wait to find out what it is!
11.20.05
Oh the guilt, oh the mass amounts of guilt. I made the team, but still the guilt. It's like this never ending trade off, isn't it? Awesomeness arrives on a silver platter and the guilt sets in. Not to mention the pressure, sheesh! I've got to be good because well, A. I want to do well for myself and my country, and B. I need to prove I earned my spot. Yah I'm totally feeling the guilt thing. I talked to Julie about it and she basically laughed her butt off. That's my big sister, always there when I need her to lend a helping hand. By the way, that song Zombie? Totally still in my head. It's crazy good so I don't really mind but eventually I'd like it to go away so I can get on with like... life? Yah more about that later. Aunt Carol is so proud of me, as are my parents, friends, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces... etc... so that's really cool. I'm sorta proud of me too because I have been working really hard. The only thing I really don't need to think about right now, which I sorta am obviously... is do I want to shoot for worlds next year and delay a semester? So many thoughts, so little time.
11.19.05
The announcement is scheduled for tonight and honestly I'm not that nervous. I know even if I didn't make the team I totally did my best and am going to be here to cheer everyone on anyways. My dad's going to arrive here at some point on Sunday for business stuff he's got to do on Monday and then he said he'll totally be mine. Fun stuff, right? I love getting the chance to hang with my dad because despite the fact that he's a head honcho in business he still loves to do cool stuff. Oh! Maybe he'll go diving with me! OMG that'd be so totally cool! So like none of the other girls had such a bad reaction to vegemite, but then again I'm not really into extreme saltiness. It's just not my thing. I don't mind salt, I do like some every now and again, I just don't like the idea of swallowing a mouthful of it. You know what I mean? So I've been calling people like since I got here and I was going to tell someone else this first, but I guess she can just find out at the same time you all do, sorry Shando!
That's right folks! I'm going to be "Julie's Little Sister" for the rest of my life because I'm heading to Stanford next year!
11.18.05
Sniffle, sob, sniffle, sniffle, sob, sob, tear! I totally just got rotten news... and this doesn't mean you should all go out and try to shoot anyone! My rotten news is that... well... I lost an earing. ::pause for dramatic affect:: What? Like that's not rotten news? I totally loved those earings and now I only have one of them! It totally made me upset because I wanted to wear them tonight... plus what if I find the earing with my foot? That would really suck! I know it was somewhere in my hand... and I was standing somewhere over my shoes... and walking towards the door with my shoes on... Wait! I know where my earing is! Okay so it wasn't where I thought it was but I did actually find it on my way to where I thought it was so at least I was on the right track! I tried a really interesting food today. I never on this earth want to see it, smell it or try it again. Vegemite. Swear to me you will never email, im, write or otherwise contact me asking, "Lily do you have any vegemite?" Oh it was just so... wow. I wanted to wash my own mouth out with soap. I've heard traditionally American's don't like this food and yah, well, that just definitely was true today. I just... oh I don't even want to gross you guys out with the details if you get my meaning. So just, don't bring it up :)
11.17.05
Aquarium! I love aquariums because you get to see all these like tropical fishes that really you'd only get to see in photographs or videos or like... "Finding Nemo"... which I totally loved! You know what I so don't care if people think I'm too old to like that movie because that was the like best movie Pixar has made so far! Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres and Willem Dafoe in a movie together with beautiful scenes of the Great Barrier Reef? Please, could you get any better? And truly I'm not a big fish fan so I was like a little not into it when I was going to go see it the first time but when I came out of the movie theater I totally wanted to walk right back in! OMG! It's just so great! Australia is beautiful too by the way even though I haven't really been snorkeling or anything. I want to go diving while I'm here because I am a certified diver and it'd be such a great experience I think! So workout was really nice this morning, I mean basically I worked my floor and vault stuff because it was a short one early and we'll have our 3 hour later tonight at Rod Laver. I think I'm making a good impression, I'm not sure though. It seems like everyone is doing really well and while that's totally awesome it's also got to pose a potentially huge problem for Corina who now has to choose her team! I think Ubu and Gwen are pretty much AA locks, and they're awesome so that's great. We'll see what happens with everything else. On the college front? Yah, I know... I shouldn't delay anymore in my diary since people probably already are talking about where they think I've decided to go. You're probably right... but I just feel like making you wait a little longer before I tell you. Heck you might even find out before I write it here!
11.16.05
First training session! Woo! So I had a kick ass time training today in TWO, count 'em TWO different places! Yah that was so cool! So what am I doing right now? Pondering Koala's! Gwen was so psyched about seeing Koala's just like I was! Hot! So I was totally all excited when I got off the plane like I couldn't sit still so I was practically running all over the airport for the time I had before everyone else got there and get this, I actually hugged Corina when she got there. I was like, "A PERSON!" so I hugged it. Amusingly she wasn't shocked or annoyed she was okay with it and hugged me back. Aww, sweet Corina! I love it when people who you wouldn't think are like touchy feely type people turn out to be all snuggly! Totally cool! So this hotel has a day spa, I plan on going at least twice this week! I love spa's! Yah, that'd be so much fun. It's funny because like whenever I call home people are going, "wow, is it really late for you?" and I'm like, uh... no... is it really late for you? Seriously we're like 5 hours away from a full day difference. That international date line really screws things up but makes jet lag hella easy to get over! So anyways I talked to everyone at home and they're all excited about the meets they're going to but I'm sad they can't be here! Usually I have a nice huge cheering section here and I think Team USA has gotten used to it in general. Daddy said he'd fly out for the meet. He loves Australia! Maybe he's bringing me a surprise, like people? Probably not, but hey we'll see! After all I do have a very big family! Ooh maybe my brother will show up! I want to see my lil baby neices again! It'd be so cool! Okay no more talky, Lily needs sleepy!
11.15.05
Phwaaaaaaah... yah, it's been over two months since I last updated. I know, you missed me so much, huh? If you haven't really been following gymnastics then you probably wouldn't know that I've been training for Worlds for the past few months. Okay but you know really if you haven't been following gymnastics and just like my site because you love my hot sexy bod... then you're a sick-o so please leave. Anyways, back to the training thing. Have you ever tried to do everything all at once? Seriously, I think I actually got the day lengthened to 28 hours. I mean like, and Corina if you're reading this pretend you didn't see this part, I swear it's like I've been sleeping through stretch and warmup because that's the only time I've actually got!
So on the college front... you knew I wasn't going to start with the interesting stuff, right? So colleges... Mom and Dad are all into me going Ivy League, and that doesn't sound so bad. I mean it'd be so kickass to go to Harvard or Yale, you know? Like, wow I'd so love to go there and I mean I could get in if I wanted to... they even asked... but it's not a place for gymn! Then of course I've got places like Arizona, UGA, Bama, and Utah kissing my ass and stuff. Seriously, like what am I going to do with more then one invitation? I was thinking of using them for wallpaper... no really, it's a thought. Then of course Cal and UCLA have talked to me, but I don't know if I really want to go to Cal and UCLA, yah I'd love to be in Los Angeles... but still... Of course did I forget to mention this cardinal I've had stuck up my... well you get the picture... since Julie got accepted 4 years ago? So yah, they call like all the time... and I don't mean just the coaches and stuff... I mean the team. Waaaaaaaaa! So anyways I'm like going nuts over this decision because I need to decide like now where I want to spend the next 4 years of my life. Truly... Harvard is looking pretty damn good about now... except all that snow... yuck. I totally forgot what I was talking about!
Okay, next topic! Let's talk about a certain birthday coming up. No, it's not my cousin's. It just happens to be coming up in almost exactly 2 months. It's a very special birthday, in case you couldn't tell, because this special chick is turning 18. And here's what she wants....!!! No I'm just kidding... let's talk about the training camp. So I'm sure you guys heard all the secret weird reports coming out of the camp. Soleil not competing, Valdez, Miller, Kohn and the other Star mysteriously not competing or disappearing from camp. To tell you the truth, I really have no idea why people didn't compete only that there were no injuries I was aware of. So! Getting back to the camp... we did the college thing and Ruth, and Anne were cool and took us for a tour of UC Berkeley(Cal). I just realize I keep calling it Cal and you guys are probably going, "Cal what?!!?" Anyways that was totally cool! We got to see the whole campus and the team was working out so we got to see that, YAY! Okay I shouldn't be cheering for them that much but I had to. Then like we just got to do a little sightseeing and some snacking(SHH!!! don't tell Corina!). Load's of fun there.
The meet of course was a blast, the fan meet'n'greet I love doing because you get to meet all these little cuties who want their pictures taken. I think the youngest I met was an infant and the oldest was some man who was in his like 80's or something and seemed like a really cool old guy. That sounded weird, but he was just this hip old guy who seemed really happy to be there. It was great. So of course what happened? A pack of Cardinal's showed up all dressed in red! It had to happen because I mean it wasn't like they were going to miss Jennie or me competing! Not to mention people are STILL trying to recruit me. Julie's little sister is not sure what she wants to do! I mean... I'm not sure what I want to do! Yah, so that's the whole of it... and now I'm on my way to Australia to cuddle some Koalas and go hop with some Kangaroo's. Seriously, that could be what I'm going to do there, I don't know. I didn't exactly make the team, but I didn't not make it either. Confused? Join the club! Anyways, they're about to serve lunch, salad... yum... I wonder what the other girls are eating? I feel sort of guilty flying separately from them but at the same time I totally love this plane and don't want to give it up for team bonding because I'm sure we'll be doing that in Australia! Land of Vegemite... this should be interesting!
09.01.05
Everything's all hush hush at the camp right now, don't ask me why, I'm just a gymnast! They don't seem to tell us gymnasts much! Here's what I do know... camp is a lot of fun, but I can't WAIT to get out of here and get to the party! It's going to be so great to see my lil cuzzins have their Bat Mitzvahs. I wish I didn't have to stay until the end of camp, because I'm going to miss some things but I am getting out to SF as soon as possible! It's going to be a great party no matter what! What else can I tell you? I don't know, it's really early in the morning right now so there's probably more but I just can't think of anything. C-yah!
08.20.05
So we're on our way to the airport right now. Since I'm the only gymnast going to camp we're taking a regular plane and not Dad's Jet. It's going to be weird because I haven't actually been on a normal plane going to the camp EVER. Thank G-D we have first class or I'd fully be distressed. I don't really know what's going to happen at camp, HaHa, but I'm totally gonna try hard to make a team! OMG! AND! I totally got all my Jack Johnson stuff and am probably going to be listening to it through the whole camp. HaHa! I can't get enough of it. I can't wait to get to know Tessa better, she seemed like a nice person at Nationals but it's not like we had much time to get to know each other! Anyways it's definitely going to be fun! Woo!
08.16.05
Okay, I have to say it! I mean everything totally weighs on my being able to speak my mind right? I should be able to talk about the injustices in the world, and how things are being screwed up by government and really, really dumb people. In fact I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to do that... so I have GOT to be allowed to say this. I <3 JACK JOHNSON! Oh I just love his music and his music videos so much I can't even explain. They make me want to move to Hawaii! Plus I think they have lower gas prices then us. He is like the most mellow laid back voice I've heard that I like and I could just listen to his stuff forever! Wow! I feel better now!
07.07.05
HaHa! Some people think that by fighting more we're going to bring peace. OMG I almost fell off my chair on that one. Here's another one I found on a site.
Dear Red States:
We're ticked off at the way you've treated California, and we've decided we're leaving.
We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.
In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.
To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches.
We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.
We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand.
We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.
We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.
We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama.
We get two-thirds of the tax revenue; you get to make the red states pay their fair share.
Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms.
Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.
With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.
With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists,virtually100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.
We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.
Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties.
By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.
Sincerely,
Author Unknown in New California.
07.04.05
Okay, just because I totally love this song and watched South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut last night... I have to post this song again!!!!
Weeeeeeeelllllll......
Kyle's mom's a bitch, she's a big fat bitch
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch
She's a bitch to all the boys and girls
On Monday she's a bitch, on Tuesday she's a bitch
And Wednesday to Saturday she's a bitch
Then on Sunday just to be different
She's a super King Kamayamaya beyotch
Have you ever met my friend Kyle's mom
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a mean old bitch and she has supid hair
She's a bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch
Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch
She's a stupid bitch
Kyle's mom's a bitch
And she's just a dirty bitch
Kyle's mom is a biiiiiiiiiitch!
I just can't get over how kick ass that song is HaHa!!!
06.25.05
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06.04.05
I'm so tired right now. Can you tell? I'm not sure if it's the 4th or the 5th because my eyes can't focus enough to look at the little clock in the corner of my screen, that's how tired I am. Okay I have to go now before I have a head-on with the keyboard. Oh, and I am SO not a bad driver TANYA!
05.19.05
Oh my gosh the USA so kicks butt, don't we? I mean we have the greatest gymnasts in the world... and we have me of course! But seriously just look at our most recent results and how AWESOME we are! We are so on fire right now! YAH!
05.04.05
The sea-monkey's have my money. No, really. I swear! Okay, I have had like SUCH a busy month! So many meets but so much fun! I didn't do that well in any of them but I'm still doing well because I'm training gym and dance like mad right now. It's crazy. You'd be so proud if you saw what my week was like. I swear there are like 26 hours in my day. So I'm on a plane right now headed for more fun right now, and I thought I'd better catch up before anyone called like missing persons on me or anything. There's some hot new co-pilot guy staring at me. Freaky, huh?
04.06.05
Yah, I haven't written for like EVER! I'm such a terrible person, I know! You've probably all been DYING to know what's up in the world of Lily! Well basically I've been training and studying for the SATs. They say you can't really study for SATs but that's crap. You SO can! That and I'm setting up college tours, not like gym tours or any official recruiting crap, I just want to see what's out there. UCLA has been after me since I was like 12... but honestly... I'm not sure if I really want to do gymnastics in college. If I do I'm not sure I want to compete on a team where there's like 5 huge stars, maybe just a little team at a great school. Right now I'm looking into seeing Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, Brown, Columbia and Princeton. Most don't even have gymnastics teams, but I still want to look at them...
02.24.05
Okay, so you know I'm TOTALLY not the kind to gossip about stuff, right? So it should come as no surprise to you all that I can't talk about the American Cup. Sorry, just way too much gossip going on there for me. You all can totally infer whatever you want from it though, HaHa!
02.05.05
OMG! I'm so horrible! I can't believe I didn't write for another whole month! Can you believe how sluggish I'm being with my journal entries? Could you ever find it in your hearts to forgive me? Hopefully you can! Loads to tell, but I'm sure most of you already know! Toodles!
01.05.05
I am absolutely too tired to talk. And that's all I have to say about that! =P
12.15.04
Yes, incase you were wondering, my snot is still frozen! How do these people live? My gosh it's so freaking cold! Oh! So we're in Boston and I've been doing a lot of ballet with Alana DeBrinski, sooooooo aweshum to do ballet. Madame Klisso is very, uh, interesting. We get along pretty well but I guess I have a little bit more energy then she's used to. It's been fun though and she offered to choreograph a new routine for me, which sounds fun. She suggested it be something, uh, how did she put it? More appropriate for someone with so much ballet talent, experience, skill, HaHa! Well anyways, it's very interesting!
12.11.04
Holy frozen snot dude! It's really cold here!
12.01.04
I'm so sorry lil cuz that I missed your big day because of a meet! I know I would have had so much fun being there and thanks for texting me stuff and vid messaging me so I could see everying Jules, I SO owe you! Okay so yah. Johanna's Bat Mitzvah was kickass probably. So many people were there. Sammie came down with Nasya so that was cool, we hung out on the fone and stuff. It's really more for younger kids, but it was still probably a lot of fun. I remember how much fun I had at mine! Oh my gosh it took me like a week to sort through all the gifts and get my Thank You's out! HaHa! More Lata!
11.18.04
It's a little disconcerting to have trained my ass off, not gone on tour so my edge could be damaged, and be performing really well only to have my ass kicked by my two awesome teammates who were either on tour since the olympics or haven't trained much at all. Does this mean I suck?
11.16.04
I have only one thing to say... 'So many pedestrians, so little time'. That was something Robin Williams once said and I thought I'd write that here as I've FINALLY gotten my drivers license. It took forever to actually get my hours in so I could take my behind-the-wheel test. Now I have and I've got my hot little car but no use for it in San Francisco. What a drag.
10.01.04
Camp was good, I'll be going to meets... yadda yadda yadda...
09.04.04
So we won the silver medal, I'm proud of us anyways. I wish I'd done better at the games, but I gotta say that considering it was my first big International meet in, like, ever, I'm proud. Aunt Carol was talking to me and we've decided I'd better have a new routine the next time I hit the international circuit, they just don't seem to like my music. Whatever!
08.12.04
So I'm in Athens, made the Olympic Team, blah blah blah... ISN'T THAT COOL!?!?! I just had to tell you guys and I can't believe I was able to hold it in this long! It's like the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me and I just practically have been hyperly happy this whole whole whole time. I'm in heaven right now! Seriously! The whole family is here and Carol has been really stickin' it to them in practice b/c they show up EVERYWHERE! I swear they're going to miss all the other events if they keep showing up but I love having their support and my teammates seem to be enjoying it too. I never knew mom and dad would have THAT many signs made up. They actually have enough for practically everyone's family. It's weird but cool because I know they're not just cheering me on but my whole team and even, at times, everyone else in the world. I guess that's a little distracting, but it's cool. My family is such a sports family and guess what, the babies came too so I've got my little nieces in the crowd and they are wearing red, white and blue shirts with a U, S and A. My brother just has GOT to make sure he has them sitting, or running around that is, in the right order. Good times! I'll report more when I know more! Oh, and PS, Athens is totally ancient right? But it SO reminds me of So Cal! Fun Stuff!
08.02.04
Dude you guys. I'm totally screwing up left and right. I seriously don't even get why I'm at this camp in the first place if I'm just gonna get jacked on all my scores. Morgan totally deserved it. But whatever, too late now. I'm having fun, like all the other girls and I are totally bonding. *Sniff* It will be so hard when we separate and there are no longer m&ms! We are supposed to have another mock meet type effect tomorrow. Will I do well? Could be. Will I get scored well? Could be. Am I being way more confident then I should be? H'yah! At least total bonus? Jennie and I watched the Democratic National Convention. Kicks ASS that GWB will no longer be president soon! Or at least, I'm hoping so. And if the secret service read my journal, well... first... they need to get a life if they've sunk to reading the journal of a 16 year old gymnast; and second... haha there's nothing you people can do about it! Free Speech!
07.31.04
Oh man! Big yawn! Okay, I'm here at Camp! Or, Kamp should I say? I dunno. I'm tired! Corina is HARSH man! Like she's not particularly bitchy or anything, but I can say I def didn't expect myself to be SO tired at the end of the training day. Ubu Xin is my roommie. She's cool and we got to know each other a little. I have to confess that I was hoping to room with Maddy, but like I don't think either of us would have gotten any sleep so that woulda totally sucked; plus it's nice to get to know someone new. So I'm happy about that. I made a couple changes to my routines and the webmaster supposedly updated them on my page. Check it out if yah want! I gotta go to bed. I actually stayed up a litle later then I shoulda. Like, 6 hours of sleep is no biggie, but tonight I think ima only get like 4, and while it won't affect me too much, it means I will be going to bed EARLY tomorrow so I can get a nice 8 hours in.
07.26.04
Okay, well first off let me just say that I love suspense! Now I know you little sneaks probably all know the results by now, but I'm not gonna tell what happened until a little later on in the journal entry. HaH!
First off I have to give mad props to my little cousin Bitty for her sign. That totally rocked cuz! I hope you got to see it on TV b/c they got a nice big shot of it. Somehow my familiy always seems to get infront of the cameras in one way or other! HaH! This time they were actually focusing on Julie and talking about how 3 years ago everyone thought SHE'D be here. They also said she was at Stanford, so once again, mad props to Julie for coming out and taking time away from her BUSY BUSY Summer Break! You go big sis!
No really though, it is cool because she's been pretty busy with stuff. I know that in addition to cheering me on she was hanging out with a couple of Stanford hopefuls. Don't I have a kickass sister? I think so. The media thinks so too, HaH!
So, now back to the meet. Yah, I have to admit it. At the end of both days, I would have lost if there was a pool for who was going. I totally wouldn't have picked myself! That's right folks! I made it to the Olympic Training Camp! I had SUCH a bad day, well, 2 bad days at the meet. I don't know what got into me. It was weird. It was like I wasn't even performing my routines. Well, technically I wasn't! It was creepy. I know I was going to showcase my new vault at Trials. I had it all ready to go, but somehow my old vault number flashed and I ended up performing a Handspring Piked 1/1 both nights. Weird, right? Then, and here's the kicker, I even screwed up floor! I mean, who woulda thunk it? Right? I mean the floor has been my event since I started gymnastics. Woo. If I was Corina, I wouldn't have put me on the squad. I feel kind of like I displaced Morgan Raducan who TOTALLY earned her spot! That def. pissed me off at me. Isn't that a trip? Anyways, Aunt Carol and I are leaving for camp soon, it should be interesting. You know what the one cool thing was though? Dawn Losmer was a TOTAL friend. It was so awkward to be thrown into a new rotation and she was like awesomely nice. Mad props to her for that too. Catch ya lataz.
07.23.04
Well, it's about an hour before we start warming up and I just found out that I'm starting on vault instead of bars. That's a pretty big change! Apparently someone said I was feeling okay with that. I guess I should be because it probably won't affect my performance. I hope it doesn't at least! That's crappy that I was the one who got switched! I wish I would have had more notice but I guess this could happen at anytime during the Olympics, if I make it! I wonder how I'll do. I'll let you know!
07.21.04
New York, New York. What a great city! I'd never noticed how big it was before. Isn't that weird? I mean, I guess it's not that weird. Anyways, the fam is here. They've all gathered and are staying in the same hotel, but not the same one the athelets are in. I'm there in a nice room, right next to Maddy's! Yay! I am a little nervous about trials. Okay, I've admitted being nervous. Isn't that enough soul baring for the night? I think so. More workouts ahead, and hopefully a camp invite! We shall see!
07.18.04
Okay, I was watching some routines, and somehow *someone* taped over part of it with South Park. So I just thought I'd say...
Weeeeeeeelllllll......
Kyle's mom's a bitch, she's a big fat bitch
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch
She's a bitch to all the boys and girls
On Monday she's a bitch, on Tuesday she's a bitch
And Wednesday to Saturday she's a bitch
Then on Sunday just to be different
She's a super King Kamayamaya beyotch
Have you ever met my friend Kyle's mom
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a mean old bitch and she has supid hair
She's a bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch
Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch
She's a stupid bitch
Kyle's mom's a bitch
And she's just a dirty bitch
Kyle's mom is a biiiiiiiiiitch!
07.16.04
Okay I had another great workout! Like I'm really going to tell you if I didn't have a great one. Somehow I don't think saying that I fell like five times on one skill is REALLY going to help me get on the team. Do you know what I mean? I mean no matter how much it means to be human and make mistakes, it's not exactly what I would really want to read about if I were judging on whether or not to take a gymnast to the Olympics. So for the sake of argument, let's just say I was perfect!
07.14.04
No pictures today Corina, I'm having a bad hair day! No really though, the guys who were taking pictures never showed up. Sorry! My training went pretty well today, vault's coming along nicely. I know, I keep talking about the vault, but it's important. It's not a weak event for me when I work on it. I guess that means I can't list it as my worst event anymore, hah? I'll get that changed sooner or later! More training tomorrow!
07.13.04
Okay I know it looks like my page is messed up but I only temporarily disabled my picture at the top because I'm putting so many pictures in my journal right now. It's not just for Corina either, my scroller isn't working right on my mouse so it's annoying when I try and scroll things, I bet some of you out there have that problem to. Isn't that creepy? Here I am vying for a spot on an Olympic Team and it sounds like my biggest concern is my scroll wheel! Okay, but seriously, it's not. I am training so hard. It's like insane, I swear I never get out of the gym! Anyways, training went well and my *new* vault is great. I'll unveil it at Trials probably so I guess you're just going to have to wait until then to find out what it is! Here's another one of those pictures Corina.
07.12.04
So apparently the guys who were supposed to be reporting on how my workouts were going to Corina got lost. San Francisco is a REALLY small city, I don't get how they could have been lost for the past 4 days, but whatever. He's here now. I bet he just got really into the culture and forgot about coming here! That's okay, I have some great pictures to show that he took. So Corina, look!
07.09.04
Wow I have been training so much. Bitty is competing on the Junior World Tour right now. Basically the whole fam went to see her. She didn't have the greatest meet but both USA Teams did well and that's all that really matters. It was great to hear the meet reports, even if I couldn't be there to cheer on my gurlz! I have been working my butt off and that's a LOT of work. I found out that Alana is doing full ballet training now. She's such an awesome gymnast, but I understand having a dancing dedication. It's cool and she's always going to be awesome.
07.01.04
I don't know who I shocked the most by tying for seventh the first day, tying for sixth the second day and coming in seventh place combined. The cool part? I made the national team and I got an invitation to trials. I think Jessica is going to try and petition to trials, but I'm not sure. I think that the person I shocked most though would have to be the other girls on the National Team. A lot of them had never heard of me before, unless they watched gymnastics around '01/'02 when I competed for Cascade and Springboard. It was so amusing to see the looks on their faces when my routines were actually okay. It was pretty funny. I guess you had to be there. There was some interesting commentary during Nationals. I was shocked to have gotten any coverage, it's cool though.
06.23.04
So now it's just me and Maddy in our gorgeous suite! We even have a great view, which I didn't think we'd have. I said that maybe Ruth should stay with Jessica, she agreed but Jessica wasn't as thrilled. Some girls are sneaking out tonight, "OOOOH! I'M TELLING!" HaH! I would definitely never do anything THAT stupid right before a meet! So at least we know who will be in her bed sleeping tonight.
06.17.04
There has been a lot of chatting over at the National Page. Fun, fun, fun I say! Maddy, Sammie, Jennie and I will be sure to have a great time at Nationals. All freezer raiders, we are! That was so Yoda! Training is going pretty well but I'm not going to say much else besides that because I wouldn't want all you people stealing my secrets! HaH!
06.15.04
Your truly is having a kickass day! I woke up in the vault pit! Don't ask. Just trust me, it was odd. Nice workout, bars are good, got my picture on the Nationals site. Life is going well, HAH!
06.11.04
Ladies and Gentleman... the wild thing... is BACK! I know, I know, you love me, you admire me, you worship me. Now, just wait as I roq the house baby. See yah at Nationals cuz the Lily Train is pulling into the station!
06.03.04
Give it up for your one and only Junior National Champion peeps! I, Lily The Queen, rule over all! Welcome to my kingdom, hehehe.